Empowering small-scale fishers to eradicate rural poverty
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Citation: Maritime Studies 2018 18:112
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Building fisheries institutions through collective action in Norway
Institutions, and the collective action that created them and which they enable, can play an important role in poverty eradication. In Norway, the Raw Fish Act passed in 1938 in the aftermath of the internatio...
Citation: Maritime Studies 2018 17:88 -
Institutions and collective action in a Costa Rican small-scale fisheries cooperative: the case of CoopeTárcoles R.L
CoopeTarcoles R.L is a cooperative on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica that has obtained better conditions for its members in the context of small-scale sustainable fisheries for over thirty years. Documents fr...
Citation: Maritime Studies 2017 16:22 -
Collective action and co-management initiatives in post-disaster Aceh, Indonesia
Studies of post-disaster rehabilitation tend to focus on the immediate vulnerabilities of those who survive. Far less is written on the efforts focused on important longer term human capacity development and o...
Citation: Maritime Studies 2017 16:21 -
Qualities of self-governance and wellbeing in the fishing communities of northern Tamil Nadu, India - the role of Pattinavar ur panchayats
Despite non-recognition by state authorities, informal councils (Tamil: ur panchayats) are known to comprehensively govern the fishing villages of the Coromandel Coast, Tamil Nadu, India. These councils take char...
Citation: Maritime Studies 2017 16:16 -
Building the Barbados National Union of Fisherfolk Organisations
The Barbados National Union of Fisherfolk Organisations was formed in 1999 under a fisherfolk organisation development project. The aim was for this national body in fisherfolk governance to strengthen the cap...
Citation: Maritime Studies 2017 16:19